She peered anxiously at the screen. No missed calls, no messages."Damn you," she said through clenched teeth.Turning her wrist, she checked her watch....Fifty-two minutes since Pete had walked out, fifty-one minutes since she'd sent the first text, forty-one since the second and nineteen since the third. All three texts were listed as 'read' and enough time had passed for Pete to collect his thoughts."Come on, Pete, reply."Lucy closed her hand around the phone, debating her next move. Send. "Does anyone have any questions for our scholar?"Gina raised her hand, "was universal birth control developed before or after they perfected the longevity drugs everybody takes?" They were both part of the same medical breakthrough that cured the last of the social diseases," Kathy answered brightly, "which is why both longevity drugs and vaccines are included in every birth control implant." But weren't there some side effects in the early days, like people's hair falling out and stuff?" Gina. The following morning she said while we were having coffee:“I think we should try something new”“You really want a threesome with me and Mathew?”“Yeah, babe, I think we could try it, but not if it hurts you! I don’t wanna upset or disappoint you, honey. I am also ready to have some a threesome with Rachel if that makes a difference!” I thought for a while, I knew that many married couples, who had already experienced something like that! Carmella said:I pondered for a few seconds. Rachel was. She didn’t even get his usual peck on the cheek. After that, she went out for a very long run, trying to work out her frustration with some punishment to her body. If anyone had asked, she wouldn’t have been able to tell them the route she’d taken, her brain had been in such high gear. In a few short weeks, her life had changed completely. In early June, she’d been a happy school teacher. Her 2nd Grade charges all loved her, and their parents did, too. She didn’t have any real friends at work..